Social Media interoperability: the wiki

In conjunction and in the margin of the work carried out within
the EU FP7 project PADGETS ('Policy Gadgets Mashing Underlying
Group Knowledge in Web 2.0 Media' - www.padgets.eu), the project
partner NTUA DSS Lab team and in particular GIC, took an open
initiative to establish the SocialMediaApps wiki aiming to support
collaboration among researchers and practitioners in the field of
Social Media interoperability.

SocialMediaApps wiki constitutes an attempt to try and record in
a collaborative and systematic way our shared knowledge about
Social Media - i.e. existing platforms, their underlying
technologies, publicly available APIs, user activities that take
place within them, user generated content types that occur,
external applications, etc. The ultimate objective of
SocialMediaApps wiki is to concentrate and keep this huge volume of
knowledge up to date, but also equally important, to try and
interlink all these small pieces of knowledge together in order to
help us better understand how this vast domain of ever growing
complexity works and thus design better applications and better
platforms in the future.

What can you find in SoecialMediaApps wiki
today?

In its initial stream of activities SocialMediaApps has embarked
on an effort to record and link together the publicly available
APIs of the major Social Media platforms today. As a result one can
find a series of articles about: Underlying Social Media platforms
and their characteristics. Their publicly available APIs along with
their description, technical analysis, implementation guidelines
and references to official documentation and prototype
implementation. Types of User Activities and resulting User
Generated Content in Social Media and how these are connected with
the available APIs. SocialMediaApps wiki is built using MediaWiki,
the same wiki platform used in Wikipedia.

Social Media Interoperability in the service of Policy
Modeling

GIC research team follows closely the work carried out within
the PADGETS ('Policy Gadgets Mashing Underlying Group Knowledge in
Web 2.0 Media' - www.padgets.eu) research project, which is
supported by the 'ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling' research
initiative of the European Commission.

Research work relates with the exploitation of Web 2.0 social
media by government organizations in the processes of public
policies formulation, through a central platform-toolset providing
interoperability with many different Web 2.0 social media, and
enabling posting and retrieving content from them in a systematic
centrally managed and machine-supported automated manner, through
their application programming interfaces (APIs).